[Illustration: Position of Diláwar , the supposed Site of POLO'S DILAVAR] BOOK I. CHAPTER I. HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

II Pasaron ocho días sin que el capitán volviese a verme.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Nay, more; Alcidamas, an ancient rhetorician of the very highest reputation, wrote even in praise of death, which he endeavored to establish by an enumeration of the evils of life; and his Dissertation has a great deal of eloquence in it; but 62 he was unacquainted with the more refined arguments of the philosophers.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

And therefore no other reason, no reason more obvious and just, can be found for holding it as the fixed and immovable belief of the truest piety, that the devil and his angels shall never return to the justice and life of the saints, than that Scripture, which deceives no man, says that God spared them not, and that they were condemned beforehand by Him, and cast into prisons of darkness in hell,
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He undressed the corpse that lay bleeding among the straw, and, conveying it to the bed in his arms, deposited it in the attitude of a person who sleeps at his ease; then he extinguished the light, took possession of the place from whence the body had been removed, and, holding a pistol ready cocked in each hand, waited for the sequel with that determined purpose which is often the immediate production of despair.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

On the sixteenth day, which is pulakuli or day of purification, the chief mourner makes offerings of rice balls, the guests are fed, and make a present of small coin to the songster who has entertained them.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The power to make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts, is withdrawn from the States, on the same principle with that of issuing a paper currency.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

There was an innocent piece of dinner-furniture that went upon easy castors and was kept over a livery stable-yard in Duke Street, Saint James's, when not in use, to whom the Veneerings were a source of blind confusion.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Spectator , 'As I hope there are but few who have so little Gratitude as not to acknowledge the Usefulness of your Pen, and to esteem it a Publick Benefit; so I am sensible, be that as it will, you must nevertheless find the Secret and Incomparable Pleasure of doing Good, and be a great Sharer in the Entertainment you give.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

If there were ninety colored clergymen in New York in 1900, as the census says, a number must have been without churches, itinerant preachers or directors of small missions, supporting themselves by other labor during the day.
— from Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York by Mary White Ovington

With the help of these isothermal curves, also, the phenomena of crystallization at constant temperature—phenomena which have not only a scientific interest but also an important bearing on the industrial preparation of double salts—will be more clearly understood.
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay

Since she could say so little in praise of Doss Umpey, she had carefully refrained from speaking of him at all to anyone, except Mrs. Nichols, who already knew more about him than Nell did herself.
— from Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier by Bessie Marchant

The entire system takes as its point of departure a few erroneous or imprudent assertions of thinkers and poets commanding respect, but developed by the Parnassians and Decadents in a way of which Lessing, Kant and Schiller never allowed themselves to dream.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

The stars sagged westward; after them the clouds, and all the trespassers by night, were quietly driven by a faint breeze rustling its promise of dawn.
— from Mountain: A Novel by Clement Wood

Imagery (even taken from nature, much more when transplanted from books, as travels, voyages, and works of natural history), affecting incidents, just thoughts, interesting personal or domestic feelings, and with these the art of their combination or intertexture in the form of a poem, may all by incessant effort be acquired as a trade, by a man of talents and much reading, who, as I once before observed, has mistaken an intense desire of poetic reputation for a natural poetic genius; the love of the arbitrary end for a possession of the peculiar means.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

I imagine that in place of desperate assaults upon fortified strongholds, as in Tonga and New Zealand, the Niuéan warrior contented himself with cutting off defenceless stragglers and slaying individuals by ambush.
— from Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga by Basil Thomson

It was a strong fabric; the dew could not hurt it, but it could hurt my sketching materials and various trifles in the wide inside pockets— objets de luxe to me, souvenirs of happy times, little artistic properties that I hang on the walls of my poor studio when in the city.
— from Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson

He rushes up and down the book in pursuit of demon expresses that arrive at their destinations forty-seven minutes before they start, and leave again before they get there.
— from Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome